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Historical Event on 5/7/1849

Bethune College of Calcutta was established in the upper class families and it was started for female education.

Other Historical Dates and Events
7/19/1969Indian Government nationalised 14 major commercial banks of India by Presidental ordinance.
3/1/1992Anant Gundopant Tendulkar, great journalist, passed away.
8/6/1994Hajratbal' was handed over to Muslim Auwkaf Trust.
1/21/1997Railways emerges overall champion in national road cycling championship in Calcutta.
8/15/1947At the stroke of midnight, India is free after 163 years of British Raj. At the same time Muslims win a degree of freedom from Hindus. They have their own separate dominion Pakistan in the British Commonwealth Sect.
1/19/1977World's largest crowd--12.7 million--gather for Indian religious festival 'Kumbh Mela'.
1/6/1987Jaidev, famous music director, passed away.
7/31/1952Bela Mitra, commander of ""Nari Vahini"" and activist of ""Azad Hind Fauj"", passed away. She also worked as partition refugee.
2/19/1993German Chancellor Helmut Kohl receives the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding from the President.
6/11/1995PM leaves for 4-day official visit to France.